WELSH language campaigners are demanding a meeting with the Assembly Education Minister over school closures.

Cymdeithas Yr Iaith said parents and governors of village schools in Carmarthenshire should be allowed to discuss closures, as is being arranged in Cardiff.

The capital city's education authority is putting its schools strategy out to public consultation until July, before moving ahead with plans for individual schools.

Cymdeithas Dyfed field officer Angharad Clwyd said, "Unlike Cardiff, Carmarthenshire County Council are determined to press ahead with their mad dash to close schools with no consultation about the overall strategy. They will only consult at the final step when they are about to close an individual school and are required to discuss the matter by law. By then, it is normally too late."